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An award-winning cellist joins an award-winning orchestra for an award-worthy program of music by Beethoven, Elgar and Sierra this weekend at Miller Symphony Hall. Matt Haimovitz will team up with the Allentown Symphony Orchestra in Elgar's celebrated Concerto for Cello, on a program that also features Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and the Pennsylvania premiere of Roberto Sierra's "Montuno." Haimovitz, who won a Grammy Award for Best Classical Producer and a Grammy nomination for Best Classical Crossover Album for his 2011 release "Meeting of the Spirits," will be in good company when he takes the stage at Symphony Hall. The orchestra, under the baton of...

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The orchestra won the...

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